The Hawks and the Sparrows (1966)

Original title

Uccellacci e uccellini

Directed by

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Genre

fantasy film, comedy film, comedy drama

Country

Italy

Runtime

1h 28m

Rated

NR

Rating

7.2 of 10 from 372 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A father and his son walk through the Italian countryside. They encounter a talking bird and debate political ideas.

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What happens

The Hawks and the Sparrows (Italian: Uccellacci e uccellini) is a 1966 Italian film directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini. It was entered into the 1966 Cannes Film Festival, where a "Special Mention" was made of Totò, for his acting performance. The film can be described as partially neorealist, and deals with Marxist concerns about poverty and class-conflict. It features the popular Italian comic-actor Totò, accompanied on a journey by his son (played by Ninetto Davoli). This is the last film to star Totò before his untimely death of a heart attack in 1967. In 2008, the film was included on the Italian Ministry of Cultural Heritage's 100 Italian films to be saved, a list of 100 films that "have changed the collective memory of the country between 1942 and 1978". (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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